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LeVar Burton On Google Glass
An anonymous reader writes "While he acknowledged that technology needs to keep going forward, LeVar Burton didn't seem comfortable with the idea of using Google Glass. '"It disturbed me. I was skeptical... [and] I'm a person that's very open to technology." That's the reaction LeVar Burton, the man best known from Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation, first had when encountering Google Glass backstage at Engadget Expand. Burton, a self-described edutainment pioneer, acknowledges the disruptive power new technologies can have on media and culture — after all, he did help transform television into a worthy educational tool/babysitter with his PBS program. But even with that storied success, and his company's current inroads into digital with an iPad Reading Rainbow application, Burton still had a "knee-jerk" response when confronted with Glass. Although his celebrity status and the resulting paranoia could have something to do with it.'"
The rumored device that lets men and women find available, eager sexual partners for one-night stands.
Your part of a group corralled in the "free speech zone" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone) associated with some politician's public appearance. The nice police officers encircling the corral wear Google Glass ... or the militarized equivalent ... and record nice, close-up mugshots of the occupants of said corral.
If your actions or mere presence at such a civil disobedience event have offended someone important, and maybe then you would like to hide, here's what happens:
The mug shots are sifted against a facial recognition software utility, using as a corpus all the posts of Facebook, various state motor vehicle departments, and all the "electronic records" your medical providers have been gathering, including ... mugshots validated to be actually you.
Then they have a collection of possible identity matches. They then get DNA fingerprints for those potential matches from the healthcare provider data base, and with that scan against all other law-enforcement- and health-care-collected DNA data to find all your relatives. A team then canvasses those people likely to be closest to you to find out where you are. Then at around 4:02 a.m your door is kicked in.